| NOTAS: | "Hyperscale data center operators such as Facebook and Google are reorienting the technology roadmap in a way that will affect the normal enterprise data center as well. The challenge of dealing with extreme scale to the tune of many hundreds of thousands of servers per data center as well as unique computing requirements has driven this handful of companies to innovate on every part of their infrastructure. They view the data center as a flexibly reconfigurable hyperscale computer, not a
building housing a bunch of separate boxes. This model is influencing a broader trend in which the network is no longer an afterthought to connect the compute and storage resources but an equal member of the triumvirate. Meanwhile, external network connections to the data center remain the main barrier to a true cloud infrastructure. In this report, Ovum calls out inflection points to watch for and highlights who stands to benefit from the fast-paced developments in the data center networking
hardware market." |
